Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s rule may become the cause of economic issues in the Philippines if he continues his present path of volatile leadership.

The most popular parts of Duterte’s presidential platform were his promises to fight government corruption, as well as crime. This includes a war on drugs, an effort by law enforcement to fight narcotics trafficking and abuse in the Philippines. Encouraged by Duterte’s promises, the war on drugs has become a rash of extrajudicial killings by the Filipino police.

Thousands of Filipinos have died since June 2016, when Duterte took office. The youngest victim was a 5-year-old girl named Danica May Garcia, who died as two men on motorcycles shot at her grandfather, according to The Washington Post, because he was a suspected drug dealer.

Philippines President Rodrigo R. Duterte shows a diagram of the connection of high-level drug syndicates operating in the country.

The U.S. government may rescind $6.7 million in law enforcement aid to the Philippines if the nation does not agree to abide by the terms the U.S. government has set. These terms are namely that the funds must be used in a way that is compliant with U.S. legal standards. This means that the U.S. government will not allow the money to be used to support the extrajudicial killings that Duterte has encouraged.

The Philippines is popular for foreign investment because of its high rate of economic growth. And foreign investors contribute to most of the major industries that make up the Filipino economy, the Journal wrote.